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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, June 3, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Little can be done to reverse mom’s self-imposed travel ban FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My parents and I My iancé and I live together and already have many of the items a live on opposite coasts of the United newly married couple would usually States. I have visited them many get as gifts. So, as of now, we are not times over the years. I’d like them registered anywhere. What is the best to visit me, but my mother refuses to way to ask for monetary gifts instead? travel. (She is healthy and not scared — Anxious Bride In Virginia of lying or traveling.) Dear Anxious Bride: While tradi- At irst, she said she didn’t have tionally it is not acceptable to blatantly the money, so I offered to pay for the Jeanne ticket and lodging here in California. Phillips ask for money — and CERTAINLY not on a wedding invitation — some Her next excuse was she didn’t have Advice couples open a bank account to be the time off, so I suggested she request used for a down payment on a house it months in advance, or travel during her company’s annual two-week shutdown. or a special honeymoon “in lieu of gifts.” The information can be conveyed verbally or on She wouldn’t consider it. My sister, who lives in the South, has had your wedding website. Dear Abby: My girlfriend bleached her the same problem with Mom. We have told her how it makes us feel and asked her why hair blond for a special event, but recently she won’t travel to either of us. Mom just changed it back to her natural black color. mumbles that she knows how we feel, but she She turned me on even more as a blonde, but will give us no reason. Even Dad has become I’m not sure how to tell her. Would I be out of fed up with Mom’s inertia, so he came to visit line to ask her to go blond again for me? — Likes Her Blond In New York me on one trip and my sister on another. Dear Likes Her Blond: The time for you Can you offer any suggestions? — to have raved about how much you liked Puzzled In Palo Alto Dear Puzzled: Yes. Accept that your her “new look” was before she went back mother may simply be most comfortable in to her natural color. For someone to go from her own environment, and stop personalizing dark to blond, then dark to blond again can her refusal to travel. Enjoy your father’s visits be damaging to the hair — not to mention expensive to maintain. when he is able to come. You can ask, I suppose. But she may not You and your sister are good, caring chil- dren. But your mother has an idiosyncrasy, be willing to go along with it. And if that’s the and you will have to accept it because you case, you’re just going to have to love her the way God made her. have done everything you can. P.S. You could buy her a blond wig to Dear Abby: I am planning my wedding. It is making me more anxious than I expected. wear on “special occasions.” DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 3, 1916 Bert Vincent, former local boy, now star- ring on the Hippodrome circuit, will be here tomorrow and sing from the top of the Hotel Pendleton at noon. He will give three or four songs. Mr. Vincent has a baritone voice that can be heard for a distance of 10 blocks above the ordinary street noises of a city. He recently sang from the balcony of the Oregon building in Portland. Mr. Vincent is going to sing from the top of the hotel just to demonstrate what a powerful voice he has. He is booked to appear at the Alta theater beginning tomorrow and will be there until Monday. He recently sang from the 42-story building in Seattle and was heard from 12 blocks away. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 3, 1966 A family quarrel, prompted mainly by money matters, came to the surface at the Umatilla Tribal Council meeting Thursday, when a petition was presented asking for a recall of seven of the nine members on the board of trustees. Phil Guyer, tribal member, presented the petition asking for the recall of tribal board members David Hall, Sam Kash- Kash, Gilbert Conner, Thelma Rieck, Joe Sheoships, Jerry Reed and Arnold Lavadour. The two remaining members, whose names were not on the recall petition, are Louis McFarland and Joseph Johnson. No oficial reason was given for the recall petition, but one tribal board member said it had to do with misunderstandings over a coming per capita payment and other money matters. The board which the petition wishes to recall will have to decide whether to hold the recall election. The tribe has had several recall elections in the past but, to best recollection, no members have been thrown out of ofice by them. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 3, 1991 A Hermiston elementary school student has been selected for a national honor for assisting a handicapped classmate. Paul Barnett, son of Dennis and Catherine Barnett, has earned the Jefferson Award for Students. He represents Oregon among the public service work award winners. Barnett, 9, was nominated for the honor by a teacher for assisting friend and classmate Landon Hall. Hall suffered a stroke while in kindergarten and was physically handicapped. “I had to walk him down to the ofice and I walked him to lunch,” Barnett said. “I just did it because he was my friend.” Barnett said he is excited about the trip to the nation’s capital later this month and is looking forward to visiting the White House. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 155th day of 2016. There are 211 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 3, 1916, Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson signed the National Defense Act of 1916, which, among other things, created the Army Reserve Oficers’ Training Corps (ROTC). On this date: In 1808, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was born in Christian County, Kentucky. In 1888, the poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was irst published in the San Fran- cisco Daily Examiner. In 1924, author Franz Kafka, 40, died near Vienna. In 1937, Edward, The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warield Simpson in a private cere- mony in Monts, France. In 1948, the 200-inch relecting Hale Telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated. In 1955, convicted murderer Barbara Graham, 31, was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison in California, as were Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, for the 1953 slaying of Mabel Monahan. In 1963, Pope John XXIII died at age 81; he was succeeded by Pope Paul VI. In 1965, astronaut Edward H. White became the irst American to “walk” in space during the light of Gemini 4. In 1972, Sally J. Priesand was ordained as America’s irst female rabbi at the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1983, Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law-enforcement oficials near Smithville, Arkansas. Today’s Birthdays: TV producer Chuck Barris is 87. The president of Cuba, Raul Castro, is 85. Actress Irma P. Hall is 81. Author Larry McMurtry is 80. Rock singer Ian Hunter (Mott The Hoople) is 77. Actress Penelope Wilton is 70. Singer Eddie Holman is 70. Actor Tristan Rogers is 70. Musi- cian Too Slim (Riders in the Sky) is 68. Rock musician Richard Moore is 67. Singer Suzi Quatro is 66. Singer Deneice Williams is 65. Singer Dan Hill is 62. Actress Suzie Plakson is 58. Actor Scott Valentine is 58. Rock musician Kerry King (Slayer) is 52. Actor James Purefoy is 52. Rock singer-musician Mike Gordon is 51. TV host Anderson Cooper is 49. Writ- er-director Tate Taylor (Film: “The Help”) is 37. Thought for Today: “Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.” — Jefferson Davis, Confederate president (1808-1889). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE